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When using the Snap Deploy stand alone utility, how do I get it to show my WiFi adaptors so that I can configure it to attach to my deployment server?

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Unfortunately, wifi adapters are not supported.   You'll find this to be the case in most offline media (not just Acronis) as wifi requires some additional background applications and wifi alone can be sketchy (compared to a solid network connection).

If you need/want wifi, you could try creating Acronis WinPE, but unfortunately, there's no snapdeploy stand-a-lone in the PE.  Instead, you might need to use Backup 11.7 or Acronis True Image Home 2016 for this specific puropse.  

You could then create the default recovery media in Acronis as WinPE media (download the Windows 10 ADK from Microsoft and install it first - Windows 10 ADK will work on a Windows 7, 8/8.1 or 10 machine - just creates that type of media as Windows 10).  Then, you can inject your wifi drivers using DISMGUI or windows 10 offline adk commands.  You could then run the portable app PEnetwork from your same drive (just extract to the drive and navigate there through command prompt in the WinPE to launch it and it should pick up your wireless adapter if you have the correct drivers).  If you want to get a little more automated/fancy... while you have your boot.wim mounted for modification, you can put the PEnetwork folder in your image and modify the X:\Windows\System32]\startnet.cmd file to call on the executable in PEnetwork to launch it at boot time too.  Or have it call the A43.exe file explorer GUI in the Aronis appication folder so you can just use the explorer GUI to navigate to your PEnetwork file and double click on it to launch it.

There are lots of options, but all 3rd party and not supported directly in the Linux bootable media and/or even in standard Windows PE from Microsoft.

On a side note... if you only have a wifi devices, but they have a USB connection, a USB 3.0 to ethernet adapter is nice, fairly cheap solution too.

http://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-SuperSpeed-Gigabit-Ethernet/dp/B00B…

http://www.amazon.com/Anker-Gigabit-Ethernet-Converter-Support/dp/B014Z…
 

I like the ones wiht the extra USB ports for tablet devices so that you can add a keyboard/mouse and some drives to launch bootable media and locally attached backup space and/or image repository

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Hi PaperEater,

However an ASD WinPE-based media does not support Standalone Deployment via GUI, it should be possible to perform deployment when booted directly with this type of media via command line. Here you will find the list of commands and usage examples.

Thank you,

I also have True Image 2016, but my internal WiFi adaptor isn't showing up either.  Is it possible to image a laptop over WiFi with True Image 2016?

PaperEater,

Unfortunately, no it is not.  Wifi is not natively supported in WinPE (Microsoft limitation as WinPE does no have the necessary background services).  The default Linux media does not either.  However, this does not appear to be just a limitation of Acronis, but is the same in all "home" Backup products I have used (most of which use WinPE for their offline recovery media).

If you have a physical NIC, that is the way to go.  If not, then a USB to gigabit ethernet adapter is a fairly cheap and efficient solution. I have not been able to get wifi working in WinPE directly, but have found success using unofficial and non-approved tools (non-Microsfot approved such as WinPE SE - it goes against Microsoft licensing and I'm sure does not follow the licensing of other products it is capable of incorporating either ... even if you do go this route, getting Acronis embedded and licensed is another hurdle..., it is doable, but pretty in depth and again, not supported by Microsoft or Acronis).

For most people, using a NIC or USB to ethernt adapter is the best/easiest/fastest solution, although will cost you about $13 to get one.  They come in handy for a number of scenarios though, and I'd recommend having one on hand anyway if you're not opposed to buying the hardware.